Tappan Zee Bridge dangler Michael Davitt is seen outside of Greenburgh Town Court on Tuesday. Opening statements in his trial of began Tuesday.

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As Michael Davitt hung from the Tappan Zee Bridge in November 2011, ostensibly to air grievances against Rockland County officials, he didn't say anything to police, an investigator testified Tuesday, instead opting for a form of nonverbal communication.

"He gave me the finger once or twice," Joe Becerra, a state police investigator, said in Greenburgh Town Court. "He just seemed content sitting in his little chair thing."

Davitt, of West Haverstraw, also unfurled a sign that day, accusing Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef of corruption, while stripping clothes off and ...